For years my parents' bed consisted of a mattress with a sheet of plywood on top and a thin memory foam mattress pad covering that, due to my mom's back problems. It was terrible because it looked like a normal bed but then I'd go to sit on the edge of it and it was rock hard. I don't know how my dad put up with it.

You absolutely do want to advertise that. Especially if you're looking for a relationship, and are doing some comparison shopping. You want a girl who can think in a utilitarian sense about money, and if a girl can't stand that your mattress isn't artificially raised off the ground, "just because", that's points against her.

Having little bits of poverty around is great for sniffing out them shallow bitches.

On the other hand, if you were to raise your bed up that might make some sex positions easier so there's that.

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